109 years ago:
Brute Force (US)
A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he's ignored by a pretty lady. We see the book enacted: Weakhands loses his girlfriend to Bruteforce, but chances upon a design for a weapon to vanquish his rival and win her back. His tribe sees this and sets h...
1914-04-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/174041
#BruteForce #DWGriffith #AlfredPaget #HarryCarey #PreCode #Film

109 years ago:
Judith of Bethulia (US)
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the war as her people suffer in starvation, nearly ready to surrender.
1914-03-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/98078
#JudithofBethulia #DWGriffith #LillianGish #HarryCarey #PreCode #Movies

87 years ago:
The Prisoner of Shark Island (US)
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprison...
1936-02-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/77245
#ThePrisonerofSharkIsland #JohnFord #GloriaStuart #HarryCarey #20thCenturyFox #ClassicFilm #Film

76 years ago:
Angel and the Badman (US)
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Pene...
1947-02-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/22356
#AngelandtheBadman #JohnWayne #GailRussell #HarryCarey #Western #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

Marietta Canty (1930-1986) steals all her scenes as Idabelle, maid and confidante to #MarleneDietrich who has had a good thing going with #johnwayne in "The Spoilers" (1942). But Marlene now thinks he done her wrong. I love Marietta Canty's last line in this scene. #films #western #harrycarey #1942 #movies